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From: knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Gripe on Microsoft
Message-ID: <69220018@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 23:17:40 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.035601.2330@news.nd.edu>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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>This has always irritated me about Microsoft.  Why don't they put updates to 
>things like mouse drivers on an FTP site or to selected bulletin boards.
>The mouse software should be free, I obviously already bought their mouse.
>They always charge $10 for a minor upgrade, plus the charge of their new
>900 number in order to order it.

Yes. And besides, Microsoft's founders are billionaires. They should send
us the updates for free just to make up for the fact that they invented
MES-DOS. Set us all back a hundred years.

tom